Snow Fun

We had our Thanksgiving dinner today. Yes, that is right. It is always so much fun to visit family for Thanksgiving, but we really miss out on all the left-overs. So every year we have our own Thanksgiving separate from the family. It was sooooooo good.We go a TON of snow in the last week, which is really strange for this area generally. Today we decided to build the kids a little snow fort/igloo.

What really surprised me was how wide it was on the inside.
We had our ward Christmas party at our church. The kids got to talk to Santa.


Kathleen and some of her cute friends singing Christmas carols.
The boys decided to make a tunnel for our train.
Brandon is a cute little piano player. He is working really hard right now on a Christmas song for his piano recital. it is so cute to hear him and watch him play.
So on Wednesday, when school was cancelled because of the snow, we spent about 5 hours outside in the snow. What does a kids hair look like after all that fun one may ask? Well we have the answer right here:
And here is what Cody did for fun while mom shoveled the driveway (sat on a mound eating snow):
We set up our Christmas trees. Here I am with the "red" tree:
And here the kids are setting up their tree in the playroom:



And here is the first day of our own "Elf on the Shelf." The kids named him Freddie. They LOVE Freddie and even made us put up a stocking for him. That first day was the best behavior I have EVER seen out of my kids, knowing that Freddie was watching them. But don't worry, they are back to normal now.
Setting up the tree:

And since I didn't take a single picture of Cam's wedding, I decided I had better put at least one on my blog that I stole from someone else. I really liked this picture. Although it was hard to choose because they were all so good.